In fact, he arranged for them to watch the Oscars in his studio just steps from the Academy Awards Sunday and then took them to several after-show parties.

Ford will be back Monday at the same studio where he will be a guest on the Kimmel show.

“It’s a great energy here,” the mayor said of Oscar night. “It’s very exciting.”

However, I was wondering if he was nervous about being on Kimmel’s show in light of the fact the comic has been relentless in poking fun at Ford in the past six months,

For example, I will never forget when Jimmy played the clip at Christmas time of a number of city councillors and the mayor dancing — the backdrop of me and Jerry Agar having some laughs about it on his show on the Sun News Network.

“What the hell is going on? Are they all on crack?” teased Kimmel over our commentary.

“One minute they are yelling at each other and the next they are dancing all around the room,” he joked. “For a while, I thought it was just Mayor Ford, but what I’ve realized is Canadians are much, much weirder than any of us had any idea they were.”

Ford knows Kimmel’s likely going to put him through quite a comedic assault.

But he’s not nervous. In fact, he said, he’s looking forward to it.

“I am just having fun,” said Ford. “I am not too worried. I have survived the Toronto media so I think I can survive anything.”

There was even a Toronto reporter trying to get pictures of him in Hollywood, serving as a reminder that while he is in Hollywood with the stars, he soon will be back home in Hollywood North.